Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-16
The Result of the Pacific Railway In.
vestigation on Yesterday When
Ex-senator Teller Was
On the Stand.
He SwOre That He Didn't Know of
Any CroOkedness on the Part
of the Union Pacific Rail.
way Company.
And He Put on an Air Of Injured In.
n0cence Which Would Have Put
to the Blush One More
Hardened Than He.
The Pacific Investigation.

DENVER. July 12.-The Pacific Railroad
Investigating Committee included United
States Senator Henry M. Teller; ex-Gov-
ernor John Evans; Edward Eddy, General
Manager of the Omaha & Grant Smelling
and Refining Company; w. A. H. Loveland,
a former Director of the Union Pacific;
Charles Wheeler, formerly Auditor of the
Denver & South Park Railroad. Edward
Eddy testified rs to the rebates received
from the Union Pacific Company and pro-
duced q contract of the Grant Smelling
Company with the Union Pacific. dated
July, 1882, to run for rs years,
ae,esd in which to contract do ali the
switching and put up all necessary eide
tracks for the smelling company free of
charge, in return for which the smelling
company agreed to send one half it's ship
ments over the Union Pacific road. Wit
ness said he considered this agreement still
in force, notwithstanding the Interstate
commerce law. Charles Wheeler and Ex.
Governor Evans testified as to the trans
fer of the control of the Denver & South
Park Railroad to Jay Gould and the Union
Pacific.
MR.. LOvELAND TESTIFIED
that Jay Gould and Sidney Dillon had once
suggested to him that he should run for
Governor of Colorado. He denied that
they had suggested he should run for the
United States Senate. United States Sena-
tor NJ. Teller was then sworn, and in reply
to questions by commissioner Littler, he
testified that he did not believe there was
q word OF truth in the statement made be-
fore this Commission yesterday to the
effect that a monied combination was
formed by the railroads during the last
Senatorial contest in Colorado. He did
not believe that railroad company had
put up dollar for the purpose OF electing
any Senator. certainly not q dollar to
help the candidate who became successful,
meaning himself. Ii the Union Pacific ex-
tended any influence, which the Senator
would not say, if it did it would be an
influence against him, as he had been
known to favor State supervision OF rail
roads. He expressed himself as quite will
ing that this Commission should examine
exhaustively into the question of his elec-
tion. His whole expenditures for the sena-
torial contest consisted Of $500 contrib
ted to the Republican Committee OF his
county, which was less than he had con-
tributed when not q candidate for office,
and his hotel bill at Denver was SCI. In
reply to a question by Governor Pattison,
he testified that the firm of which he had
been member until 1882, which consisted
of his brother and himself. and another
lawyer, had been
ATTORNEYS FOR TIE UNION PACIFIC COM.
part OF the time on a salary Of eight or
nine thousand dollars ayear, but said that
at that time be had no connection with the
firm nor with the railroad. In reply to
question by Commissioner Anderson, he
said he did not believe that the United
States should itself attempt to run rail
road. He saw no warrant in the constitu-
tion for the assumption OF such q function
by the government. He thought it would
be better for the government to specify
regular annual sum which it would or
might require the Union Pacific Company
to pay rather than a percentage OF it's net
earning, as the latter plan would lead to
disputes as to what the net earnings really
were.